What's the difference between lewdness and salaciousness?

Lewdness


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
  • (2) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
  • (3) He was suspended from the BBC for three months in October 2008 after he and Russell Brand left lewd messages on actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone that were broadcast on Brand's Saturday night Radio 2 show.
  • (4) For Fo, the key to understanding Grillo is not in 21st-century Italy but in the 13th century, when storytellers – giullari – roamed Italy, entertaining crowds in piazzas with lewd and ancient tales interwoven with satirical attacks on local potentates.
  • (5) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
  • (6) The former Everton striker has instructed his lawyers to handle his dismissal for "unacceptable and offensive behaviour" in the light of leaked footage showing him making lewd comments to a female co-presenter.
  • (7) After Gray was summarily dismissed when new footage came to light that showed him making lewd suggestions to a female co-host , the pressure to take action against Keys, too, increased when yet another clip appeared to show him talking in sexist terms about a former girlfriend of the pundit Jamie Redknapp.
  • (8) His scratching was erroneously interpreted as lewd and indecent behavior.
  • (9) David Cameron has said he is glad that Russell Brand is not voting in his constituency, after the comedian criticised democracy and made lewd comments about the prime minister's sex life.
  • (10) 2008 In October, Ross makes a guest appearance on Russell Brand's Radio 2 show and the pair leave lewd messages on 79-year-old actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone.
  • (11) Donald Trump was more measured in the debate but the damage had already been done after his ‘lewd comments’ video was leaked two days earlier.
  • (12) A similar buildup of complaints was seen when lewd remarks made by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand on Ross's Radio 2 programme began to circulate online, although in that case not until more than a week after the show's initial transmission.
  • (13) Its isolation no doubt attracted the Roman countess and her lewd husband who held lavish sex parties on the island 40 years ago.
  • (14) The investigators also found that Savile was heard making a lewd remark to a young woman patient at a opening ceremony at Pinderfields Hospital in 2010.
  • (15) Encounters ranged from lewd remarks to inappropriate touching, sexual assault and in three cases rape, said the report.
  • (16) Slipper had sent lewd text messages, and they’d been made public.
  • (17) He was described as "weird", "lewd", "strange", "creepy", "angry", "odd", "disturbing", "eccentric", "a loner" and "unusual" in the course of just one article .
  • (18) In 2011, when Abedin was five months pregnant and working as deputy chief of staff in Clinton’s state department, her husband was forced to stand down from his congressional seat after he inadvertently tweeted a lewd photograph intended for a woman in Seattle to his 45,000 followers.
  • (19) The heroine, Caithleen, is expelled from her convent for writing a tame note implying sexual relations between a nun and a priest, an act she considers so lewd she hesitates to share it with the reader.
  • (20) Contagious moods and narcissistic tendencies The 21-year-old singer, who has undergone something of an image change since 2012, was referring to comments online made about her after some controversially lewd performances.

Salaciousness


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
  • (2) "There's a global appetite for any North Korea story and the more salacious the better.
  • (3) Documents cite various occasions where players and coaches cursed or flipped each other the bird, as well as “salacious” Super Bowl concerts by Michael Jackson and Prince.
  • (4) The charges against them are as salacious as they are farcical,” Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said late last month .
  • (5) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois Rather than investigating how far-right killers could have operated undetected for so long, most of the German media opted for lurid coverage of the NSU, insisting that it consisted of only three people.
  • (6) North Korea has attacked the South's "reptile media" for running salacious reports alleging Kim Jong-un ordered nine performers to be executed to protect his wife's reputation.
  • (7) It accuses Roberts’s lawyers of including the names of prominent individuals, which it says were irrelevant to the lawsuit, in an attempt to generate publicity with a motion that “simply proffers various salacious allegations as quotable tabloid fodder”.
  • (8) "They want to be able to show that which is salacious, that which is sensational… they want to give a sense of the drama of the courtroom."
  • (9) Each time the story is retold it changes, with new salacious details about public figures and world leaders.
  • (10) Much attention was focused on the salacious and graphic details accompanying the independent counsel's findings, which Mr Clinton's advisers believe will be decisive in setting the national mood in which the report is discussed.
  • (11) Gillian Slovo, daughter of anti-apartheid activists Joe Slovo and Ruth First, "worried when the author's sourcing was overtaken by its opposite: gossip, some of it salacious".
  • (12) The purpose of the act was to restrict reporting salacious deatails in divorces.
  • (13) The Borat star apparently walked after his vision of a racy treatment depicting Mercury's famously salacious lifestyle was at odds with the more family-friendly approach desired by the singer's erstwhile bandmates.
  • (14) Last year 40 female political journalists signed a petition complaining of persistent harassment by senior male politicians, such as comments complaining they weren’t showing enough cleavage, text messages asking them out, salacious comments, harassment and being asked after holidays: “Are you tanned all over?” Things have got so bad that a women’s group this week opened a free phone line providing legal advice for women who are victims of harassment by male politicians.
  • (15) They also accuse the salacious romance, itself the subject of controversy after stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux alleged Kechiche bullied them on set , of veering into child porn territory.
  • (16) Some are overtly salacious; others, like 2004’s Precious Boys, sad and soulful.
  • (17) Over the past decade, the agency has been involved in fewer salacious incidents and has moved away from the "good ol' boy" image that dogged it in the past, according to the New York Times.
  • (18) Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman's death is insufficiently sad to be left un-supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mourn-ography posing as analysis.
  • (19) The genre has become increasingly salacious in the intervening years, as women have revealed ever more intimate details of couplings to papers so grateful for their indiscretions that they shell out thousands of pounds for the privilege of publishing them.
  • (20) Another possibility, the newspaper admitted, was that Leone was not seen as authentically Indian and "no one minds a salacious Caucasian".